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Cecilia Flores

Cecilia Flores

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Neuroscience

D-Index
34
Citations
3521
World Ranking
9381
National Ranking
546

Overview

Cecilia Flores is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and has contributed extensively to neuroscience and related fields. The primary areas of study in their research include Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on several subfields such as Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Developmental Neuroscience, Cancer Research, and Biological Psychiatry.

Their work covers a number of main topics, including:

  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling
  • Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation
  • Tryptophan and brain disorders

Cecilia Flores has published frequently in several scientific venues. These include:

  • Biological Psychiatry (7 publications)
  • Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience (5 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (4 publications)
  • Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science (3 publications)
  • Frontiers in Neural Circuits (2 publications)

Recent papers highlight their research in the development and molecular pathways associated with dopamine signaling and stress vulnerability during adolescence. Selected recent publications are:

  • Mesocorticolimbic Dopamine Pathways Across Adolescence: Diversity in Development (2021), published in Frontiers in Neural Circuits
  • The Netrin-1/DCC Guidance Cue Pathway as a Molecular Target in Depression: Translational Evidence (2020), published in Biological Psychiatry
  • Unique Effects of Social Defeat Stress in Adolescent Male Mice on the Netrin-1/DCC Pathway, Prefrontal Cortex Dopamine and Cognition (2021), published in eNeuro
  • miR-218 in Adolescence Predicts and Mediates Vulnerability to Stress (2020), published in Biological Psychiatry
  • Dopamine Axon Targeting in the Nucleus Accumbens in Adolescence Requires Netrin-1 (2020), published in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

The co-authorship network of Cecilia Flores includes collaborations with researchers contributing to overlapping themes in neuroscience and molecular biology. Frequent co-authors are:

  • Giovanni Hernández (20 joint publications)
  • Michel Giroux (14 joint publications)
  • Alice Morgunova (11 joint publications)
  • Dominique Nouel (8 joint publications)
  • Lauren M. Reynolds (7 joint publications)

Best Publications

  • Adolescence and reward: Making sense of neural and behavioral changes amid the chaos

    Deena M. Walker;Margaret R. Bell;Cecilia Flores;Joshua M. Gulley

  • The Netrin Receptor DCC Is Required in the Pubertal Organization of Mesocortical Dopamine Circuitry

    Colleen Manitt;Andrea Mimee;Conrad Eng;Matthew Pokinko

  • Making Dopamine Connections in Adolescence.

    Daniel Hoops;Cecilia Flores

  • DCC Confers Susceptibility to Depression-like Behaviors in Humans and Mice and Is Regulated by miR-218

    Angélica Torres-Berrío;Juan Pablo Lopez;Rosemary C. Bagot;Dominique Nouel

  • DCC Receptors Drive Prefrontal Cortex Maturation by Determining Dopamine Axon Targeting in Adolescence.

    Lauren M. Reynolds;Matthew Pokinko;Angélica Torres-Berrío;Santiago Cuesta

  • dcc orchestrates the development of the prefrontal cortex during adolescence and is altered in psychiatric patients

    C. Manitt;C. Eng;M. Pokinko;R. T. Ryan

  • Long-lasting induction of astrocytic basic fibroblast growth factor by repeated injections of amphetamine: blockade by concurrent treatment with a glutamate antagonist.

    Cecilia Flores;Demetra Rodaros;Jane Stewart

  • Netrin receptor deficient mice exhibit functional reorganization of dopaminergic systems and do not sensitize to amphetamine

    C Flores;C Flores;C Manitt;D Rodaros;K M Thompson

  • Mesocorticolimbic Dopamine Pathways Across Adolescence: Diversity in Development.

    Lauren M. Reynolds;Lauren M. Reynolds;Cecilia Flores

  • The Netrin-1/DCC guidance system: dopamine pathway maturation and psychiatric disorders emerging in adolescence.

    Daniel E. Vosberg;Marco Leyton;Cecilia Flores

  • Basic fibroblast growth factor as a mediator of the effects of glutamate in the development of long-lasting sensitization to stimulant drugs: studies in the rat.

    C Flores;J Stewart

  • Peri-pubertal emergence of UNC-5 homologue expression by dopamine neurons in rodents.

    Colleen Manitt;Cassandre Labelle-Dumais;Conrad Eng;Alanna Grant

  • Role of netrin-1 in the organization and function of the mesocorticolimbic dopamine system.

    Cecilia Flores

  • Netrin-1 receptor-deficient mice show enhanced mesocortical dopamine transmission and blunted behavioural responses to amphetamine.

    Alanna Grant;Daniel Hoops;Cassandre Labelle-Dumais;Michael Prévost

  • Increased ipsilateral expression of Fos following lateral hypothalamic self-stimulation

    Arvanitogiannis A;Flores C;Pfaus Jg;Shizgal P

  • MiR-218: a molecular switch and potential biomarker of susceptibility to stress.

    Angélica Torres-Berrío;Dominique Nouel;Santiago Cuesta;Santiago Cuesta;Eric M. Parise

  • Prenatal Inflammation-Induced Hypoferremia Alters Dopamine Function in the Adult Offspring in Rat: Relevance for Schizophrenia

    Argel Aguilar-Valles;Cecilia Flores;Giamal N. Luheshi

  • Fos-like immunoreactivity in the caudal diencephalon and brainstem following lateral hypothalamic self-stimulation

    Andreas Arvanitogiannis;Cecilia Flores;Peter Shizgal

  • Association between schizophrenia and genetic variation in DCC: a case-control study.

    Alanna Grant;Ferid Fathalli;Guy Rouleau;Ridha Joober

  • Early Adolescence is a Critical Period for the Maturation of Inhibitory Behavior.

    Lauren M Reynolds;Lauren M Reynolds;Leora Yetnikoff;Matthew Pokinko;Matthew Pokinko;Michael Wodzinski

  • Changes in astrocytic basic fibroblast growth factor expression during and after prolonged exposure to escalating doses of amphetamine.

    C Flores;J Stewart

  • Fos-like immunoreactivity in forebrain regions following self-stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus and the ventral tegmental area.

    Cecilia Flores;Andreas Arvanitogiannis;Peter Shizgal

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric J. Nestler
Eric J. Nestler Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Marco Leyton
Marco Leyton McGill University
Ridha Joober
Ridha Joober Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Bryan Kolb
Bryan Kolb University of Lethbridge
Peter Shizgal
Peter Shizgal Concordia University
Guy A. Rouleau
Guy A. Rouleau Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Hugo Théoret
Hugo Théoret University of Montreal
Giamal N. Luheshi
Giamal N. Luheshi Douglas Mental Health University Institute
Franco Lepore
Franco Lepore University of Montreal
Alain Dagher
Alain Dagher Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital

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